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Успенский собор (Плёс)
Uspensky (), or Uspenskaya (feminine; Успе́нская, Uśpieńska) is an East European surname. Notable people with the surname include: People * Aleksandr Uspensky (1902–1940), Soviet NKVD officer * Andrej Uspenski, Russian photographer * Boris Uspensky (born 1937), Russian philologist and historian * Eduard Uspensky (1937–2018), Russian writer * Fyodor Uspensky (1845–1928), Russian Byzantinist * Gleb Uspensky (1843–1902), Russian writer * J. V. Uspensky (1883–1947), Stanford University mathematician * Lev Uspensky (1900–1978), Soviet writer * Lyubov Uspenskaya (born 1954), popular Ukrainian/Russian chanson singer * Maria Ouspenskaya (1876–1949), Russian actress and acting teacher * Marina Uspenskaya (1925–2007), Russian book designer and graphics painter * Nikolai Uspensky (1837–1889), Russian writerEstonia * Peter Uspensky (1878–1947), Russian esotericist and philosopher, known as P. D. Ouspensky * Porphyrius Uspensky (1804–1885), Russian trave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Uspensky
Aleksandr Ivanovich Uspensky (; 27 February 1902 – January 28, 1940) was a senior officer of the Cheka, the Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie, GPU and the NKVD. Uspensky was both a perpetrator and a victim of the Great Purge. Biography Uspensky was born on February 14 or February 28, 1902, in to the family of a Russians, Russian forestry official. He studied at the local theological school in Tula. Uspensky made his career during the Russian Civil War. In August 1920, he joined the Cheka and in September the same year, he also became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Russian Communist Party (b). Later he rose to be deputy head of security in the Kremlin. In February 1936, he was appointed deputy head of the West Siberian NKVD. In February 1937, he was appointed head of the NKVD in Orenburg Oblast, Orenburg. In this role, he impressed the head of the NKVD, Nikolay Yezhov with his zeal, by having 40,000 supposed 'enemies of the people' arrested. On Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (, ), abbreviated as NKVD (; ), was the interior ministry and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. The agency was formed to succeed the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) secret police organization, and thus had a monopoly on intelligence and state security functions. The NKVD is known for carrying out political repression and the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin, as well as counterintelligence and other operations on the Eastern Front of World War II. The head of the NKVD was Genrikh Yagoda from 1934 to 1936, Nikolai Yezhov from 1936 to 1938, Lavrentiy Beria from 1938 to 1946, and Sergei Kruglov in 1946. First established in 1917 as the NKVD of the Russian SFSR, the ministry was tasked with regular police work and overseeing the country's prisons and labor camps. It was disbanded in 1930, and its functions dispersed among other agencies before being reinstated as a commissariat of the Soviet Union ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Uspenski
Andrej Uspenski is a Russian ballet dancer and photographer. Uspenski was born in St Petersburg and trained at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, the Palucca School of Dance, Dresden, and the Berlin State Ballet School. Uspenski joined The Royal Ballet in 2002 and rose to first artist, before retiring as a dancer in 2015, due to injury. During his dancing career, he often photographed dancers and rehearsals and after retirement was asked to become an in-house photographer for the Royal Ballet. His first exhibition, ''A Dancer's View'', was in 28 April to May 2017 at the Old Truman Brewery. The Royal Academy held a Friends private view of the exhibition. He has published several photography books ''Dancers: Behind the Scenes with The Royal Ballet'' (2013), ''Natalia Osipova: Becoming a Swan'' (2013) and ''Steven McRae: Dancer in the Fast Lane'' (2014). ''British Theatre Guide'' called ''Dancers: Behind the Scenes with The Royal Ballet'' "indispensable to balletomanes". ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Uspensky
Boris Aleksandrovich Uspensky (; 12 July 1927 – 28 September 2005), was a Soviet and Russian poster and graphics painter. Biography Boris Uspensky was born in Moscow. He studied in the Moscow Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Surikov Moscow Art Institute 1947–1953. In 1953 he became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. From 1985 he was Professor and Head of the Graphical Dep., Surikov Institute. In 1986 he became People's Artist of the USSR. From 1992 he was a full member of Russian Academy of Arts. Works After graduation in 1953, he started a working partnership with fellow student Oleg Savostyuk. Their friendship and collaboration lasted for many years and proved to be a brilliant success, when they made a complete breakthrough in the poster genre by creating a new style inspired by the Russian folk art Lubok – brightly coloured stories, sometimes in a primitive style. "... The innovative feat of these two artists was that they returned the pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Uspensky
Eduard Nikolayevich Uspensky (; 22 December 193714 August 2018) was a Soviet and Russian children's writer and poet, author of over 70 books, as well as a playwright, screenwriter and TV presenter. His works have been translated into 25 languages and spawned around 60 cartoon adaptations. Among the characters he created are Cheburashka and Gena the Crocodile, Uncle Fyodor and Kolobki brothers. He was awarded Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class in 1997. Biography Uspensky was born in Yegoryevsk, in Moscow Oblast into a Russian family. His father Nikolai Mikhailovich Uspensky came from the city of Yelets and was a distant relative of Tikhon Khrennikov. He served as a high-ranking official in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Eduard's mother Natalia Alekseyevna Uspenskaya (''nee'' Dzurova) was an engineering technologist from Vyshny Volochyok. She came from a merchantry social estate. Her paternal ancestors were Poles who were resettled i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor Uspensky
Fyodor Ivanovich Uspensky (or Uspenskij; ; 19 February 1845 – 10 September 1928) was a Russian and Soviet Byzantinist. His works are considered to be among the finest illustrations of the flowering of Byzantine studies in the Russian Empire. Life and career Uspensky was born near Galich on 19 February 1845. He was educated at the University of St. Petersburg, with his first thesis (1872) dedicated to Nicetas Choniates. For two decades (1874-1894) he read lectures at the Novorossiysky University in Odessa. This position allowed him to spend considerable time abroad. Uspensky's doctoral thesis (1879) dealt with the foundation of the Second Bulgarian Empire. Although he specialized in the Byzantine-Bulgarian relations and investigated the Slavic influence on the Byzantine economy, Uspensky also researched and wrote extensively on the Crusades. In 1894 Uspensky, who shared Slavophile ideals, decided to move to Constantinople to study and protect the surviving monuments of Byz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gleb Uspensky
Gleb Ivanovich Uspensky (; October 25, 1843 April 6, 1902) was a Russian writer and a prominent figure of the Narodnik movement. Biography Early life Gleb Uspensky was born in Tula, Russia, Tula, the son of Ivan Yakovlevich Uspensky, a senior official in the local government Office of State Property, and Nadezhda Glebovna Uspenskaya (née Sokolova). He was named after his grandfather on his mother's side, Gleb Fomich Sokolov who served as the head of the Office of State Property in Tula (up until 1848) and Kaluga (from 1848 onwards). Gleb Uspensky received his early education in the homes of his parents and grandfather. In 1853 Gleb entered the Tula gymnasium where he excelled, "his name never leaving the so-called 'golden desk' there", according to a fellow student's memoirs. In 1856 he moved with his family to Chernigov. While studying in the local gymnasium, Uspensky devoted much of his time to reading the Russian classics and participated in the school's literary almanac "You ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lev Uspensky
Lev Vasilyevich Uspensky (, 8 February 1900 – 18 December 1978) was a Russian writer and philologist, known for his popular science books in linguistics. from the '''' Works Prose *«Запах лимона» (1928, with L.L. Rubinov, as Lev Rubus) *«Пулковский меридиан» (1939, with G.N. Karayev) *«60-я параллель» (1955, with G.N. Karayev)Science fiction *Плавание «Зэты». (1946) *Шальмугровое яблоко. (1972) *Эн-два-о плюс икс дважды. (1971) Pop ...
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Lyubov Uspenskaya
Lyubov Zalmanovna Uspenskaya (Russian: ''Любо́вь За́лмановна Успе́нская''; born Sitsker (''Си́цкер''); 24 February 1954) is a Soviet and Russian performer of Russian popular music, much of which is the so-called "urban romance" or Russian "chanson" (Russian: городской романс, gorodskoy romans) style. Multiple winner of the "Chanson of the Year" (Russian: Шансон Года) award. Biography Uspenskaya was born in Kyiv (Ukrainian SSR) to Zalman Sitsker (1932–2002), the director of a household appliances factory in Kyiv, and Elena Chaika, a nurse from Ashgabat, who died during childbirth. From an early age, the future star was surrounded by music. She was taught piano by her father and graduated from music school, where she studied to play the accordion. It was not her choice since it was her relatives who wanted, in memory of her grandfather, a professional musician and a director of the factory of folk instruments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Ouspenskaya
Maria Alekseyevna Ouspenskaya (; 29 July 1876 – 3 December 1949) was a Russian actress and acting teacher.Nissen, Axel. 2006. ''Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties.'' Illustrated ed. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.; , p. 141. She achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an older woman in Hollywood films.Obituary for Maria Ouspenskaya, '' Variety'', 7 December 1949; page 63. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for '' Dodsworth'' (1936) and '' Love Affair'' (1939). Life and career Ouspenskaya was born in Tula, Tsarist Russia. She studied singing in Warsaw and acting in Moscow. She was a founding member of the First Studio, a theatre studio of the Moscow Art Theatre. There she was trained by Konstantin Stanislavsky and his assistant Leopold Sulerzhitsky. The Moscow Art Theatre traveled widely throughout Europe, and when it arrived in New York City in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Uspenskaya
Marina Yevgenyevna Uspenskaya (; June 18, 1925 – 2007) was a prominent Russian children's book illustrator and graphics painter. Biography Marina Uspenskaya was born in Moscow in 1925. She graduated from the 1905 Art College, where she studied theatre and decorative arts under Professor V.A. Shestakov. In 1947 she entered the graphics department of the Surikov Institute in Moscow, where she studied under professor D.E. Dekhtyaryev in the book illustration studio. Works After graduation she found her passion and craft, making illustrations for children's books. Throughout her career, she made illustrations for some 200 children's books in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Russia, France, India and Japan. She worked for several of the largest publishing houses in her native country, including ''Detskaya Literatura'', ''Detgiz'' and ''Malysh (publisher), Malysh''. She is particularly famous for her illustrations for classic Russian fairy tales, including ''Ruslan and Lyudmila'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
